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Right oblique strain. Which you wouldn't think should affect him since he's a lefty ...

8 weeks is, um, 60 days minus 4. 😃

I'll just quit while I'm behind.

One hell of an extra-innings game.

I buy MLB.tv and now there's a hoop to jump through? I may be on a wildcat strike tonight.

The Saints are in the middle of a home stand so I don't see a reason why not, unless traffic on I-94 is bad.

I missed, who comes up with xBA and what stats is it based on?

Usually how it works.

Then don't OPS under .700 as a corner outfielder, Trevor. Now go OPS above .800 at AAA, kthxbye. (I think he can do it, but this has been like Waiting for Godot.)

Buonasera Castle? Never heard of it but it looks beautiful.

"Meh, the fans won't care. Let's trade for Mahle. Last place, here we come!"

Pretty sure the opposing coaches are developing plans against each of our batters, at the same time, using these same tools. I'm not happy with current hitting results either, but it's not as simple as you make it out.

Getting older is mandatory. Maturing is optional. Just ask Mrs Ash. As for the topic of this thread, I am fine with Kirilloff spending time at AAA. As has been pointed out, he played 3 consecutive games for the first time; I didn't see anyone mention that his very SSS batting results these 3 games were an emptyish .250 BA. I don;'t want him simply knocking at the major league door, I want him to kick it down, and he's not there yet.

He's cooled off at bat since a good start - .457 OPS beginning April 15. And he's no great shakes anywhere on defense. Still, he fills a role, and was brought in after Farmer was already on board. So I don't see Farmer's return as a reason he'd be DFAed, while Kirilloff plays too different a role for me to expect him to be a roster casualty. I see it as Castro for Farmer, and Larnach for Kirilloff (unless Trevor has a couple of monster games toot-sweet). Donovans's not looking like much of a candidate for a contract renewal next off-season, to say the least.

Yes and no. 71 PA vs RHP, 10 PA vs LHP - Vazquez 29 PA vs RHP, 18 PA vs LHP - Jeffers Vazquez has borne the brunt more against righties, but as Stringer said, they just haven't faced that many lefties in all. Jeffers has faced more RHP than LHP, just not quite as extreme. But Vazquez hasn't done well against either handed pitcher (OPS .610 and .400 respectively), while Jeffers has exhibited good results so far against righties (OPS .918 and .600). Jeffers has capitalized. Vazquez has not. These are all small numbers to analyze, though.

Based on the things you looked at I wondered if he was requiring too many pitches per batter faced, but at 3.93 he's running just about a league average this year, much as he's done in 2021-22. I think the manager is just being ultra cautious with his workload..

Well, he's a right handed batter and (like most) he hits worse against righties, though this year in small sample he's showing a reverse split that I don't expect to last. So I didn't really understand where you were going with saying he's on the team to hit against RHP. IMO he was brought in as protection against LHP, since so many of our hitters bat left.

The two bolded items tie in together, making me especially eager to agree with going back to normal rules for the 10th and 11th. If the offenses are inept, the extra innings might go even faster without the runner on second that starts things off. And if one of the offenses manages to scratch out a winning run by the regular rules, it just seems more organic.

Remember, I was merely tapping the brakes on the subheading, "Bullpen is lights-out". An IBB to begin the 10th inning or later may be sound strategy. The Twins did that only 1 time in the 3 extra innings they played. The other four IBB remain black marks, in my book. Three innings in a row, starting in the 8th, the bullpen found itself with a runner on third, and the Twins issued an IBB to try to preserve the tie. Self-inflicted - a couple of leadoff walks and a couple of wild pitches were in the mix there. Without the runner on third, the IBB is unlikely in each case. Pagan's 11th inning was the closest to a clean inning, but Rocco apparently didn't think he was lights-out and had him walk Benintendi (again!) with two outs, to face the weaker bat in Hamilton, even (as the visiting team) knowing that if it worked (it did!) then Hamilton would be guaranteed to start on second base the next inning and we'd face the top of the lineup instead of getting a free out with Hamilton coming up to bat. I'm sure Rocco was thinking an inning ahead, and still felt this was the best move with Pagan. There was no way at the time to know the Twins would explode for 5 runs and make Hamilton irrelevant. The bullpen was in no way lights-out this game. Indeed, three innings in a row, the bullpen did well to not be walked-off (in good measure due to the Twins' quiet bats until the 12th). And that's all I'm saying. So kudos to those pitchers for keeping their cool and battling their tails off. Ultimately, they were good enough.

The bullpen was NOT lights-out. Only Moran in the 12th didn't walk anybody, and a baserunner reached 3rd four out of five innings. This was a tightwire act, not a shutdown exhibition, and they were extremely fortunate to not get burned even once when the game was for the taking.

Hey, quit trolling us doomsayers.

7-3. Nice to win a laugher. Been a long time since we had one of those.

Leave it to Correa to foul off Ball 4. But this pitcher couldn't leave well enough alone.

Do not taunt Happy Super Barf Bag.

Foul game.